{"id":192,"date":"2015-06-10T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=192"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:38:40","slug":"wordpress-an-error-occurred-while-updating-could-not-remove-the-old-plugin","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/wordpress-an-error-occurred-while-updating-could-not-remove-the-old-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; An error occurred while updating could not remove the old plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to update WordPress plugins all at once from the WordPress Updates section you may receive the following error:<\/p>\n<p><strong>An error occurred while updating could not remove the old plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Error-Updating-Plugins-Wordpress.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Error-Updating-Plugins-Wordpress.gif\" alt=\"Error-Updating-Plugins-Wordpress\" width=\"783\" height=\"703\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you try to update the WordPress plugins individually it may show that the plugins have updated however when going back to the WordPress Updates section it is still showing that the plugins have not been updated<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Individual-Plugin-updates.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Individual-Plugin-updates.gif\" alt=\"Individual-Plugin-updates\" width=\"476\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Installing a new WordPress plugin ends up in the error:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could not create directory. \u00a0Plugin install failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Could-Not-Create-Directory-Wordpress-Plugin.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Could-Not-Create-Directory-Wordpress-Plugin.gif\" alt=\"Could-Not-Create-Directory-Wordpress-Plugin\" width=\"638\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Cause<\/h2>\n<p>The permissions are not correct in the plugins folder.<\/p>\n<h2>Resolution<\/h2>\n<p>Log in to the website via FTP and set the permissions as 755 for the plugins folder.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to update WordPress plugins all at once from the WordPress Updates section you may receive the following error: An error occurred while updating could not remove the old plugin If you try to update the WordPress plugins individually it may show that the plugins have updated however when going back to the WordPress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[73],"article-tag":[135,134],"class_list":["post-192","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-wordpress","article-tag-error-occured-while-updating-plugin","article-tag-plugin-install-failed"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":8},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}